Tag Archive for 'Gist'

Isn’t There Supposed To Be More To Life Than Just Work?

On my way to work at Awesome Elementary School the other day, I started yelling at the radio. Okay, sure, not that unusual, but this was because of a commercial. It was a commercial for some sort of remote-desktop software that lets you see and manipulate files on your work computer even when you’re not on [...]

Share on Facebook

Freelance Parenting

by Richard Zippy the Monkey Boy and I were eating breakfast at a sidewalk cafe in San Francisco. We’d just rented bikes to cycle over the Golden Gate Bridge and wanted to fuel up. I was about to dig into my omelet when I found I could add another job to my resume: freelance parenting. [...]

Share on Facebook

Let There Be Light

by Richard Being poor sucks. And then there’s the kind of poor where people live in places like this. These are places where the folks forced to live there have no electricity. No sewage except for the rutted joke of a street outside their hovel. No clean water. Nothing, really, that we consider one of [...]

Share on Facebook